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Error-analysis on Chinese Prosody Aticulated by Uighurian College Students

Author: YuLi
Tutor: GaoLiQin
School: Xinjiang University
Course: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: inter-language theory error-analysis prosody tone stress and intonation
CLC: H193
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2005
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Abstract

This investigation performed error analysis on the Chinese prosody as articulated by Uighurian college student in XinJiang by means of amount of phonetic experiments, in due to perfect the efficiency of Chinese prosody training to the minority nationality college students in XinJiang. The error analysis on Chinese prosody was completely focused on the following three aspects: tone, stress, and intonation. First of all, Chinese tones announced by Uighurian college students were carefully error analyzed by means of phonetic experiments. Their inclusions reveal that not only errors of tonal pattern, but also tonal paradigm are there in tone errors featured by Uighurian college students. The errors of tonal pattern show that: tone2 and tone4 often be replaced by tone1; most errors of tone3 are articulated to tone2; tone1 usually be announced to tone2 or tone3. In these errors, tone 2and tone 3 so far more frequently is made error than tone1 or tone 4. The tone4 is more special than the others, the most difficult will be made when it is in the last position of a sentence, and it is most easy to be articulated in the other position. On another hand we noted that tone3and tone2 came rather close to each other when analysis of tonal paradigm was working. Moreover, the margin between starting point and final point of tone2 is too small, and tone1 is lower; final point of tone4 is too high in tonal paradigm. By through of the error analyzed of tonal pattern and tonal paradigm, we make conclusion that: To Uighurian students, the most difficult tone in Chinese is Tone2 and Tone 3. It is not only be confused in tone pattern, but also came close to each other in tone paradigm. Secondly, error analysis on Chinese unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in sentence announced by Uighurian college students is made by means of phonetic experiments. The conclusions on unstressed syllables reveal that the situation of Uighurian students grasping the Chinese unstressed syllables is not very well. The most reason is the influence come from their mother-language. In addition, understanding to feathers of Chinese unstressed syllables is too little make more negative-influent from mother-language. Experiments on sentence stressed syllables show that the position of grammar stressed syllables do not be grasped very well. Sentence stress often is misplaced. Some errors belong to word stress. The stressed syllables pronounced by Uighurian students be affected greatly by their mother-language, they often make fall tone, when stressed some syllables. Finally, we made phonetic experiments on Chinese intonation by Uighurian college students and performed error analysis. Because of study of Chinese intonation is in the first step, different languisher have different ideas, so this paper analyzed tone of the last stressed syllable in a sentence articulated by Uighurian college students on the ground of the professor Hu Mingyang’s theory and professor Lin Mao can’s ideas. The in conclusions reveal that: substitute transition of tonal pattern to that of intonation. In question-sentences, tone of the last stressed syllable in a sentence often be pronounced to rise-tone or high flat tone; in state-sentences, tone pattern often change to fall-tone or low-flat-tone. This intonation error exists generally in different level students. The reason relate to negative-influent from intonation of mother-language.

Error-analysis on Chinese Prosody Aticulated by Uighurian College Students

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